{"product_id":"genius-and-heroin-the-illustrated-catalogue-of-creativity-obsession-and-reckless-abandon-through-the-ages-9780061466410","title":"Genius and Heroin: The Illustrated Catalogue of Creativity, Obsession, and Reckless Abandon Through the Ages","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat is the price of brilliance?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy are so many creative geniuses also ruinously self-destructive? From Caravaggio to Jackson Pollack, from Arthur Rimbaud to Jack Kerouac, from Charlie Parker to Janis Joplin, to Kurt Cobain, and on and on, authors and artists throughout history have binged, pill-popped, injected, or poisoned themselves for their art. Fully illustrated and addictively readable, \u003cem\u003eGenius and Heroin\u003c\/em\u003e is the indispensable reference to the untidy lives of our greatest artists and thinkers, entertainingly chronicling how the notoriously creative lived and died--whether their ultimate downfalls were the result of opiates, alcohol, pot, absinthe, or the slow-motion suicide of obsession.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLargo, Michael:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eMichael Largo is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Big, Bad Book of Beasts\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eGod's Lunatics\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eGenius and Heroin\u003c\/em\u003e; and the Bram Stoker Award-winning \u003cem\u003eFinal Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as three novels. He and his family live in Florida with their dog, two turtles, a parrot, two canaries, and a tank of fish.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Morrow \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50317882720530,"sku":"9780061466410","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_875a53b7-343a-4d72-8f11-45118c59f85c.jpg?v=1727542108","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/genius-and-heroin-the-illustrated-catalogue-of-creativity-obsession-and-reckless-abandon-through-the-ages-9780061466410","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}